Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-01
eoRoNER,s INoUEsTs
Held Upon the Bodies of Edna verhi
a,a,, aud o,,is Verheyen.

Held Upon the Bodies oil Edna Nernae-
gen and Louis Verheyen.
Coroner Clark held inquests last evening
in the cases of Edna Verhaegen, more
generally known in Sacramento as Lily
Forrest, and her murderer, Louis Verhey-
en-. Nothing new was developed in either
case, but the testimony given by Charles
Vanina relative to the woman's death is
interesting nevertheless. He testified as
follows
live on Jibboom street. Slater's Addi-
ton; knew Edna yerhaegen for about
three months was living with her for the
last Two weeks, up to last Saturday night !;
Saturday quit work at o'clock and went
home to my house; took me four
minutes to walk home; found the door
locked, but thought it nothing unusual
took hold of the door-knob and called her
name she answered and said, That's all
right | pushed the door when she
opened it, and she fell in my arms: saw
Louis Verheyen standing in the middle of
the kitchen, smiling, with both hands in
his pockets; he said, when he saw me,
Hello. Charley" l answered, Hello,
Lou, what are you doing?" when | said that
l thought there was nothing wrong; noticed
her hand was bleeding, but thought that
she had cut herself; after l said Hello,
Lou" he skipped out this was all he said;
she said, - Please, Charley, take me inside;
do not let the neighbors see do not say
who did it - we weressstanding in the door
at the back of the house; he passed out of
the same door we were standing in :;
l took her in the bedroom and
put her in bed; at her request
took her sn1 put her on the sofa, and
then, at her request, placed her on the
floor; she said, a. Charley, open my dress :"
cut open her dress, and when | got to her
corsets saw the mark of the knife, and
then knew that she was cut; she said
Is Louis Verheyen was here this morning
and kissed him good-by, at his request,
as he said he was going away; he came
around at o'clock and wanted to kiss me
again told him to go away before Char
ley came home" She said when Louis
Verheyen was there in the morning he was
feeling happy. | asked her about her fin
gers being cut, and she said, He was 60
ing to cut me on the other side, when
grabbed the knife. If you had not come
in when you did he would have killed me"
asked her what kind of knife he used
if he had 1t on him, and she said he used
a butcherknife that was on the table.
The father and sister of the deceased
woman came up from San Francisco Sun
day evening and arranged for her body to
be taken to the Bay this morning for inter-
ment. The father returned home yesterday
afternoon, taking with him as remem-
brances of his lost daughter few pictures
which she priced. The sister remained to
attend the inquest and escort the remains
TO San Francisco this morning. She testi-
fled that the deceased was Mrs. Edna Yer
hagen, native of Belgium, aged % years
and months.
The verdict of the jury was that death
was caused by knife wound inflicted by
one Louis Verheyen, with murderous in
tent.
The inquest in the case of Verheyen, re-
suited in the jury's returning averdict that
he was native of Belgium, 80 years of age,
and that his death was caused by his own
hand, the means unknown, but supposed
to be poison. The Coroner deemed it
hold an autopsy to determine
the cause of DEATH Though he was a resi-
dent of Sacramento for quite long time,
he does not appear to have made friend
who was willing to come forward and say
a good word over his corpse. The one
loyal friend that he did have was lying
silently near him, her lips closed by his
murderous act, but her pale, patient face
was making more eloquent complaint
against him in death than she had allowed
her tongue to do while she lived.